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Review
. 2006 Aug;32(8):464-7.
doi: 10.1136/jme.2005.012831.

Should medical ethics justify violence?

M H Kottow  1
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Should medical ethics justify violence?

M H Kottow. J Med Ethics. 2006 Aug.

Abstract

Medical ethics needs to be on its guard against those in military or political power who would seek to subvert its most basic tenets in order to serve their own ends

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